Posted by CmdrTaco on 14:51 Friday 12 December 2010 from the watch-out-for-space-junk-dept
Sorry about the downtime and thanks for your patience while we've been getting our new SSS (Slash Satellite Server) [operating code relased under gpl4] back online. Seems that a Microsoft Repair Tool (a 3 meter hammer) collided with the main antenna last Wednesday. Now, I know many of you have claimed sabotage, but as Microsoft has only placed 11 satellites around ours it seems to indicate we are a minor threat and they are probably not trying to drive us out of space. Update: 12/12 17:30 GMT by Hemos: Interesting photos can be found at an undisclosed location(TOS), while we converse about possible legal proceedings against the MS-AOL-TIME-MPAA-SONY-MCDONALD-INTEL corporation.
You will get pretty bad eyestrain reading an entire novel on the computer, though it's not bad for single-sitting things like Edgar Allen Poe.
I must have the worst eyestrain in the world, since I've been reading hundreds of ebooks for months. These aren't short novels; 700 page fantasy and sci-fi books are the norm. All you need is the proper display setup. Mine is light text on a dark green background. Simplicity.
Even if there is a shred of truth in the Bible, one does not need to jump to the false dilemma that Jesus is a liar or a god-man. Just because places in Stephen King's stories really exist does not make them true, and fiction is the strongest type of literature we have.
I would shelve large portions of the Bible under "Historical Fiction."
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It takes hundreds of years to travel between distant star systems (with current technology), so what would happen if the aliens live on the other side of the galaxy?
Even traveling at light speed it would take a very long time (though I don't know if light speed matters in the X-files' universe).
Funny, now that you mentioned it, I'm reading
a little Asimov on my PC right now.
Some people are willing to suffer a little to
read a good book they can't get otherwise.
E-books, e-paper, and PDA's are (or will be) used because, their versatility and compactness far outweighs their drawbacks, such as copy restrictions, slow refresh rate, resolution or small screens. Nothing can be recreated artificially and perfectly with different materials.
Just watch in a few years as perfectionists complain that e-paper doesn't work right - not as spare toilet paper or backup fire-kindling.:)
Sure,
In Letter 131 J. Tolkien mentions:
"The Men of the Three Houses were rewarded for their valour and faithful alliance, by being allowed to dwell 'westernmost of all mortals' in the great 'Atlantis' isle of Númenor."
Atlantis is also mentioned in letters 144, 186, 154, 156, 163 and others. In fact Tolkien refers to Númenor as Númenor-Atlantis quite frequently. You are right in respect to the fact that Gondor and Arnor are the Outposts on Middle Earth of Númenor-Atlantis. Isengard is also between the two lands and was made by the the Númenoreans.
So you are not completely wrong.:)
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Posted by CmdrTaco on 14:51 Friday 12 December 2010
from the watch-out-for-space-junk-dept
Sorry about the downtime and thanks for your patience while we've been getting our new SSS (Slash Satellite Server) [operating code relased under gpl4] back online. Seems that a Microsoft Repair Tool (a 3 meter hammer) collided with the main antenna last Wednesday. Now, I know many of you have claimed sabotage, but as Microsoft has only placed 11 satellites around ours it seems to indicate we are a minor threat and they are probably not trying to drive us out of space. Update: 12/12 17:30 GMT by Hemos: Interesting photos can be found at an undisclosed location(TOS), while we converse about possible legal proceedings against the MS-AOL-TIME-MPAA-SONY-MCDONALD-INTEL corporation.
He loved Microsoft.
I must have the worst eyestrain in the world, since I've been reading hundreds of ebooks for months. These aren't short novels; 700 page fantasy and sci-fi books are the norm. All you need is the proper display setup. Mine is light text on a dark green background. Simplicity.
I would shelve large portions of the Bible under "Historical Fiction."
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No deity has that right, imaginary or not.
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The guy in the wheelchair was the Mantis.
Excellent show, though sadly cut short. The men in black and all that.
It takes hundreds of years to travel between distant star systems (with current technology), so what would happen if the aliens live on the other side of the galaxy?
Even traveling at light speed it would take a very long time (though I don't know if light speed matters in the X-files' universe).
Sure, it might work. Than again they might decide to declare war on Antartica.
There goes everything you fought for...
Oh, I don't think someone wouldn't try it.
Funny, now that you mentioned it, I'm reading a little Asimov on my PC right now.
:)
Some people are willing to suffer a little to read a good book they can't get otherwise.
E-books, e-paper, and PDA's are (or will be) used because, their versatility and compactness far outweighs their drawbacks, such as copy restrictions, slow refresh rate, resolution or small screens. Nothing can be recreated artificially and perfectly with different materials.
Just watch in a few years as perfectionists complain that e-paper doesn't work right - not as spare toilet paper or backup fire-kindling.
Sure, :)
In Letter 131 J. Tolkien mentions:
"The Men of the Three Houses were rewarded for their valour and faithful alliance, by being allowed to dwell 'westernmost of all mortals' in the great 'Atlantis' isle of Númenor."
Atlantis is also mentioned in letters 144, 186, 154, 156, 163 and others. In fact Tolkien refers to Númenor as Númenor-Atlantis quite frequently. You are right in respect to the fact that Gondor and Arnor are the Outposts on Middle Earth of Númenor-Atlantis. Isengard is also between the two lands and was made by the the Númenoreans.
So you are not completely wrong.
Ahh, but Atlantis is supposed to be Númenor, so
Isengard is != Atlantis.